Another week, another maintenance cycle...
Mar 26th, 2007
Well, this week we don't quite have live maintenance, but we don't have a full regular maintenance, either. Eyonix informs us that starting at 5:00 AM PDT (or 8:00 AM EST) all servers will be offline for approximately three hours for maintenance to the authentication databases. Most US players won't notice an early morning maintenance like this, but sadly, it still falls right in prime time for Australian players, for whom it starts between 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM, depending on their time zone. Sorry, folks -- I'd be pretty frustrated if regular maintenance hit during my prime time play schedule, too. Recent Posts
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-27-2007 @ 12:26AM
Lrn2blog said...
Wow......
Like we really needed a report on this.
You know a site is going downhill when....
BTW, the 17 posts on will you be revisiting old instances was top notch.
GG
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3-27-2007 @ 12:35AM
TwhiT said...
Lrn2blog
QQ a bit more numbnuts...
cuz nobody cares! haha
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3-27-2007 @ 12:36AM
Christopher Merchant said...
Looks like the WOW Forum crowd has made their way to WOW Insider. It was only a matter of time...
Chris
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3-27-2007 @ 7:43AM
uncaringbear said...
Lrn2blog: Go back to trolling the forums.
Re: Tuesday maintenance
It's always a sad night for us Aussies. Last week I got home from work, had dinner, logged onto WoW and was greeted with the message "Server shutdown in 1 minute.".
/CRY
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3-27-2007 @ 9:12AM
FireStar said...
wow have some mean commenters on today.
ffxi had their 7 hour maintenance during the middle of the day for U.S. players. Japanese developers i guess didn't want to get up in the middle of the night to cater to their wider subscription crowd.
Any blog is better than no blog (besides where people complain about their chars being nerfed..i have 8) because it gives me something to get distracted with :P.
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3-27-2007 @ 10:18AM
Burning Adrenaline said...
This blog entry was useful to me in that I hadn't known about the Australian prime time/maintenance issue. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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3-27-2007 @ 5:12PM
Anti Whinger said...
I am an aussie and appreciate the heads up. pretty annoyed @ blizz though.
Thanks mate.
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3-27-2007 @ 6:21PM
Woodstock said...
Elizabeth raises an important question that has long annoyed many Australian players (myself included). While having one night a week of regular maintenance is good because it encourages us to have a life (or get one if we don't already), it is also really annoying.
I agree with TwhiT, people who randomly complain about nothing is even more annoying that losing a night's gametime.
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3-27-2007 @ 8:27PM
Kazia said...
Wasn't it last week or the week before when they ran maintenance at normal times for US servers, but the Oceanic flagged ones where done later, at what equated to 5am Australian EST. Why couldn't they do that again here?
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3-27-2007 @ 9:06PM
Wena said...
I hope that the login process is smoother now. Being an Oceanic player in Asia, it's strange to see the IP logins not goto California but head all the way to New York. Wonder if this will help with the current lag faced by Oceanic players.
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